Pretty Dancer dressed in a pleated Caraco with a low-cut gorgerette of bronze Italian taffeta, with a flowered linen apron matching the trim of the Caraco; the bows and ribbons are pink. (1779) Winter is the season of pleasures, and dance makes one of the principal amusements of society, over-all for the young people of … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 17e Cahier, 6e Figure

Pretty Woman, coiffed with a New Peasant Cap, with an excellent caraco of apple-green taffeta,  trimmed with Italian gauze, also on the petticoat. (1778) Caraco à la Francaise, seen from the side, with a matching petticoat over a very rounded bouffante.  The trim of Italian gauze; the sabot cuffs very ample and frilled at their … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 16e Cahier, 6e Figure

Woman in a pleated Caraco of changeable taffeta in "pigeon's throat", the trim in very light gauze poufs, the hat trimmed in poufs as well. (1778) Pleated caraco, or français caraco, seen from the back, trimmed with flounces; the volant is headed with a matching trim.  The sabot cuffs flare in the middle and taper … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 15e Cahier, 4e Figure

Young lady in a taffeta caraco, coiffed in a demi-cap; this dress derives from Nantes, in Brittany, where the Bourgesoises of the town wore it to the passage of M. the Duke d'Aiguillon in 1768. (1778) It is said at the bottom of this Print that the caraco derives from Nantes in Brittany, where the … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 6e Figure

THE DISTRACTED WOMAN.  This woman, after being entirely dressed, remembers that she has not washed her feet, and is brought a basin by her chambermaid.  Her Gown is of wine-grey Gourgouran* trimmed with the same, the ribbon around the trim is sky blue, tied at intervals with little flowers.  The chambermaid is in a caraco … Continue reading Galerie des Modes, 12e Cahier, 2e Figure